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'Cyphers and Secret Documents: Safe Custody Reports and Handing Over Certificates for Secret Documents' [92v] (189/523)
The record is made up of 1 file (260 folios). It was created in 30 Dec 1936-24 Sep 1946. It was written in English and Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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2. The above -mentioned documents consist of [see next succeeding form].
{I consider 1 i ^ ^ rT£
^ that their production will be prejudicial to the public interest. [11
Sir J. S. considers J
possible state reasons, see generally next succeeding form.]
f I accordingly request ] , -n i •
3. J >that you will attend upon your subpoena and will explain
[ I am accordingly to request J
to the court that for reasons given above you are directed not to produce the documents in
question.
Signed
To
2.
AFFIDAVIT TO BE SWORN BY THE MINISTER OR PERMANENT HEAD OF THE^
DEPARTMENT WHERE THIS METHOD OF CLAIMING PRIVILEGE (WHICH MAY
BE SUITABLE FOR DIFFICULT OR SERIOUS CASES) IS CHOSEN.
[See Memorandum, paragraphs 9 and 10.]
In the High Court of Justice, &c.
Between A.B. Plaintiff
and C.D. Defendant.
I, Sir J. S., His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs [or I, Sir R. V.,
Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs], make oath and say as follows:—
1. I have read the subpoena duces tecum (or as the case may be) dated .... and served
on .... in which production of the following documents is called for, that is to say • • • •
[In certain cases the form may be "I have read the ... schedule to the affidavit of
documents sworn by (or ' on behalf of') .... in the above-named suit."]
2. The said documents are State documents [or " The following among the said documents
are State documents, that is to say . . . . "] relating to the defence of the realm [or "relating
to the foreign policy of His Majesty's Government"], and I object [or "I object on behall of
His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs"] to their production on the
ground that it will be prejudicial in the public interest to allow them to be read in open court
[or " to be inspected by the Plaintiff (or as the case may be), their solicitors or agents."]
Alternative Form.
2. The said documents [or ''The following among the said documents, that is to
say . . . . "] consist of confidential communications [reports, official minutes, &c.] made
by .... an official of this Department [or as the case may be] to .... in pursuance of his^
official duty. The said communications [or as the case may be] are solely for the information'"
of His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs [or " for my own
information"], and are confidential communications which it will be prejudicial in the public
interest to produce, &c. [or "I consider that the said communications, which are confidential,
cannot be produced without injury to the public interest, and I accordingly object to their
production." Or " The said communications cannot be produced without prejudice to the
principle of the confidential nature of official intercourse, and I have no alternative but to object
to their production on the ground that it would be injurious to the public interest." Or " The
said reports are furnished solely for the information and guidance of His Majesty's Government,
and I consider that their utility in this respect would be prejudiced if they were compiled with
the knowledge that they might be produced in a court of law."]
Or again—
2. The said documents consist of communications from the (French) Government to His
Majesty's Government and their production would be contrary to the public interest [or " The
French Government have refused to (or ' not given their ') consent to the production of the
said documents, and their production without such consent would be injurious to the public
interest."]
Or—
2. The facts contained in [or " The contents of"] the said documents cannot be disclosed
without injury to the public interest, and I accordingly object to their production.
Signed
Sworn, &c.
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The file contains papers relating to the safe custody and transfer by the Bahrain Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. of secret and confidential publications and cyphers and codes. The file contains correspondence from the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Bahrain and from other British officials, safe custody certificates, transfer certificates, and related papers. The papers include:
- papers relating to the custody of ' Field Notes on Saudi Arabia - 1935', December 1936 - September 1946, including certificates of safe custody sent to the Air Officer Commanding, British Forces in Iraq;
- papers relating to the updating of the 'Military Report on the Arabian States in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ', May - June 1941 and March 1942, including correspondence between the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Bahrain and the Government of India, correspondence from Major H T Hewitt, Defence Officer, Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , containing reports on defence arrangements in Bahrein [Bahrain] and Qatar, May 1941, letter from E V Packer, Petroleum Concessions Limited containing a report on the oil situation in Qatar, June 1941, letter from Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain containing a report on the Bahrain naturs, May 1941, and report on the route from Sharjah to Kalba by Cornelius James Pelly, Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. on the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. , Sharjah, March 1942, with sketch map, folio 81;
- Foreign Office memorandum on the production of official documents, 1942.
The Arabic content of this file consists of printed text on the verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. of the sketch map on folio 81. This sheet appears to have been reused for drawing the map.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (260 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear of the file. Serial numbers written in blue and red crayon (blue for sent correspondence, red for received correspondence) are present throughout the file. They refer to entries in the notes at the rear of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 258 on the back cover. The numbers are written in pencil, are enclosed in a circle, and can be found in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. Foliation anomalies: ff. 1, 1A; ff. 3, 3A; ff. 53, 53A; ff. 185, 185A. A second incomplete foliation sequence numbered 53-250 is also present between ff. 52-245. The numbers are written in pencil, but are not circled, and appear in the same position as the main sequence.
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- 'Cyphers and Secret Documents: Safe Custody Reports and Handing Over Certificates for Secret Documents'
- Title
- front,front-i,1ar:1av,2r:3r,3ar:3av,4r:53v,53ar:53av,54r:80v,82r:185v,185ar:185av,186r:257v,back-i,back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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